Besides, 50-50 chance whoever you need to talk to has already left for the weekend. So good karma for having made the call without the bad outcome.
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Fred Pete - Aug 20, 2010 11:11:27 am PDT #19196 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Amy - Aug 20, 2010 11:14:45 am PDT #19197 of 30001
Because books.
Now I have to go look up kyriarchy. You people are always making me work.
Burrell - Aug 20, 2010 11:17:11 am PDT #19198 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Why make the call at all, -t?
I just went to see my daughter's talent show, then had lunch with DH. Back in the office for an hour or so, then we're going to try to see the USC soccer game. Today is a good day.
I should try to do something productive with my hour, like finish up my syllabus for Monday.
-t - Aug 20, 2010 11:21:38 am PDT #19199 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I thought I was just poking bureaucracy to keep a process in motion, but the issue is actually resolved! And not in the most awful way possible, so that's good.
Good advice, y'all, thanks.
beekaytee - Aug 20, 2010 11:27:03 am PDT #19200 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Tactical pens
My former cop dh would SO have had that S&W pen if it had been available back in the day.
For the 28 years I went by Bj, it was a constant struggle to remind people that a) the j is small and b) I'm not a man. So, for a number of years, I lowercased all my names...probably for similar reasons to Vortex's colleague.
It was a great conversation piece most of the time.
Now, having gone back to the big girl name, I uppercase for formal situations, but lower for familiars.
Mostly, I don't care what I'm called anymore.
brenda m - Aug 20, 2010 11:27:44 am PDT #19201 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I generally don't capitalize on line, am iffy about it offline, and don't take umbrage either way.
§ ita § - Aug 20, 2010 11:29:41 am PDT #19202 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
don't take umbrage either way.
I umber, for the record.
Can someone tell my boss? I'm not sure how much longer I can get away with the passive aggressive search and replace on documents before he sends them out.
beekaytee - Aug 20, 2010 11:59:43 am PDT #19203 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
I umber, for the record.
Oh man. I used to be the Queen of Umberland around the misuse of my name. Mine was a military reign where this was concerned.
Now, I just sigh over folks' seeming inability to see the y and the -. Honestly, are hyphenated names still so foreign that people really don't know to alphabetize by the first initial?
I can't even be upset when people say, "We have no record of your _____, Ms. T."
Um, that would be because it's not T, it's K-T. Look under the K, or vice versa. It's bound to be there somewhere.
Burrell - Aug 20, 2010 12:18:31 pm PDT #19204 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Honestly, are hyphenated names still so foreign that people really don't know to alphabetize by the first initial?
If my experience in any indication, the answer is yes.
§ ita § - Aug 20, 2010 12:22:21 pm PDT #19205 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I know my name is different, but it's not that different. So, you know, people, bite me. And that's before you get to the capitalisation thing.